TiVo Deathwatch – Engadget – www.engadget.com Can someone explain to me how they are losing money? There’s a column here someplace.
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Inside the TiVo community, the question gets discussed to death. Personally, I think the prime investors don’t really care what happens with their relationship to DirecTV. Either Murdoch will buy them out or they will succeed in lawsuits for patent violations, look ‘n feel. With the lawsuit resolution always an option, there isn’t a hell of a lot of motivation to compete.
TiVo will go down as a prime example of what NOT to do to maintain relationships with key partners. Great technology is meaningless if you don’t lock up the channels to reach your market. In this case, once non-TiVo DVRs became commonplace, its inability to seal the deal with the DirecTVs of the world became its undoing.
I guess those lifetime subscriptions are going to end up being a lot shorter than subscribers expected.
Carmi Levy
http://writteninc.blogspot.com
I never understood why I had to subscribe. What did the monthly fee really get me? The device sounded like something I’d like to have, but the subscription thing kept me away. Jeez. Subscribe to Napster, Sirius, NetFlix, On-Star . . . Yikes! Pretty soon I’m defaulting on my mortgage.